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Show NEVADA POSTMASTER I KILLED BY ASSASSIN I Thomas Jones Of Llda Is 8hot To Death By An Unidentified Man a Bin .. Ooldflold, Nevada, March 23. Thos Jones, far ton years Justice ot .the lichco and postmaster nt Llda, n small mining .camp thirty-five miles southwest ot Goldfleld, was shot by an unknown assassin last evening and died a few hours later. About soven o'clock Jones went from his Iioubo to tho woodpllo for wood, when his assailant Kroso from behind tho pile and fired with a shotgun tho charge of buckshot entering Jonos' shoulder. A second charge, apparently blrdshot knocked Jones' hat and causod sev-orals sev-orals calp wounds. Several of the heavy shot passed through Jones' body and a brass suspender buckle was driven into his lungs. Deputy sheriffs and a doctor were summoned by telcphono nnd hastened to tho scene by automobile Jones remained re-mained conscious until his death at midnight, but was unablo to describe his assailant, or furnish any clew. 'Thera havo been several shooting of- fH fray's at Llda in lato years. Jones 13 fH said to havo aided In the prosecution fH of trespassers on national forest re- pfPJ Borves, but boforo dying declared that Jppj ho had no enemies. He was widely JPPJ known In southern Nevada and among PPH former Alaskas. ' BH |